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NOWHERE Launches Crowdfunding With Alpha Access

By Liam Dawe, 20 Sep 2013

NOWHERE is a game that's hard to describe and we covered it back in July, they have now launched a crowdfunding campaign using humble store and it looks like the game has had a little change in direction.

Hyper Light Drifter, 2D Action RPG With Awesome Visuals

By Liam Dawe, 19 Sep 2013

Hyper Light Drifter is a 2D Action RPG in the vein of the best 8-bit and 16-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale.

Humble Weekly Sale Featuring Egosoft's X series

By Liam Dawe, 19 Sep 2013

Humble's latest weekly sale is actually a really good one folks, featuring Egosoft's X series of games where the three newest ones do support Linux, this is the cheapest I've ever seen them together!

Pixel Piracy, A 2D Sandbox Pirate Game Updates

By Liam Dawe, 19 Sep 2013

Remember Pixel Piracy? The fun looking Side-scrolling 2d, Real Time Strategy, Sandbox, Simulation Game we showed you? It's been getting some fun updates!

Humble Indie Bundle 9 Adds New Games, Two Brand New To Linux

By Liam Dawe, 18 Sep 2013

That's right folks as is usual the Humble Indie Bundle 9 has added some new games, two of which are brand new to Linux "A Virus Named Tom" and "Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken".

Arma Tactics Turn Based Strategy To Come To Linux

By Liam Dawe, 18 Sep 2013

It seems Linux is to get a game in the Arma series, not one of their realistic FPS games, but rather a new turn based game called Arma Tactics.

Timelines Assualt On America Pre-Order Up On Steam

By Liam Dawe, 17 Sep 2013

A new RTS game we have covered here on GOL before is now up on Steam for pre-orders, hooray! This one does look rather great.

Strife A New Simpler MOBA From The Heroes Of Newerth Developers

By Liam Dawe, 17 Sep 2013

Looks like S2 games is creating a "second generation" as they call it MOBA designed to be more casual and less toxic than current MOBA's.

Show Your Support For Unity3D Editor On Linux

By Liam Dawe, 17 Sep 2013

Not something I usually do but this is a good cause, Unity is still missing having it's actual editor on Linux!

SUPERHOT FPS Where Time Only Moves When You Do

By Liam Dawe, 17 Sep 2013

SUPERHOT is an FPS game where time moves only when you move. The innovative time control mechanics create gameplay never seen before. TAKE YOUR TIME! Get rid of aggressive enemies with grace, style and the intense satisfaction.

Postal 2 DLC Details Revealed

By Liam Dawe, 16 Sep 2013

Running With Scissors has revealed some but not all of the details of what will come with the Postal 2 DLC!

Gabe Newell At LinuxCon 2013, Linux Is The Future Of Gaming

By Liam Dawe, 16 Sep 2013

Gabe Newell owner of Valve the company behind Steam did a keynote at LinuxCon 2013 inside is a video and the info.

Planetary Annihilation Beta To Commence 26th September

By Liam Dawe, 16 Sep 2013

Planetary Annihilation an RTS game currently in alpha testing is due to go into beta on the 26th of September which means it will drop in price from $70 to $60 and a whole host of new features will be pushed!

BlastEm - The Fast And Accurate Genesis Emulator

By Liam Dawe, 16 Sep 2013

BlastEm has the goal of being an extermely accurate Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) emulator while still running on relatively modest hardware by using advanced techniques.

Starpoint Gemini 2 Tactical Space Simulator Could Come To Linux

By Liam Dawe, 15 Sep 2013

Captain your own space ship and roam the galaxy in 3D in this tactical space simulator with tons of RPG depth ! Space has never looked so inviting - but images can betray...

Fields Of War Online Mech Combat Game New Release

By Liam Dawe, 14 Sep 2013

Fields of War is a massive multiplayer third-person-shooter focused on large scale battles, territory control, skill and most importantly team play.

Iracing Online Racing Game Comes To Linux In Alpha Via Wine

By Liam Dawe, 13 Sep 2013

An online car racing game that PC Gamer voted "Best racing game of all time" has hit Linux in the form of an alpha version that uses Wine.

Democracy 3 Pre-Order's Are Up With Beta Access

By Liam Dawe, 13 Sep 2013

Democracy 3 is now available for pre-order which comes with the beta version, beware though the port is not done by the developer so we may see issues like we did with Gratuitous Space Battles and lack of updates and DLC.

Half-Life: Source & Half-Life Deathmatch: Source Come To Linux

By Liam Dawe, 13 Sep 2013

Valve are making another Linux push towards having their full library available on Linux, this time it's Half-Life: Source & Half-Life Deathmatch: Source.